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Goodbye Columbus
Summary: Discusses the novel "Goodbye Columbus" by Philip Roth. Provides a plot summary of the novel. Explores differences between characters Neil and Brenda.
There was one summer a few years ago when a "summer fling" escaped it's reputation of being just another cliché: I met a boy. It was one of those random things; the kinds of things that are unexpected and unlikely, out of place but not. There was something about him though that I was attracted to - A magnet of some sort that had nothing to do with who he was or how he looked; nothing belonging to the music he liked or the people he hung around with. He liked gangster rap, I liked Jeff Buckley. He was a "midnight toker" and I, a depressed bulimic. It usually takes me a while to get comfortable with someone - It took two days with him. The second time we saw each other, we were having sex. It wasn't the kind of awkward sex where you're just worried the...
This section contains 1,901 words (approx. 7 pages at 300 words per page) |